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25
May

The New CD: Session 1: 8am in the studio

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So after much changing of schedules we finally roll into John Critchley’s Green Door studios today at 8am. Mark C is there now loading the drums in and starting to develop the drum sounds. I’ll be getting there in a bit (it’s just down the street from me).

Many thanks go out to John for putting up with our corporate time tables for this one – he’s not used to starting at such an ungodly hour!

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28
Apr

The Parkdale Hookers invited to play NXNE 2009

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NXNE has invited The Parkdale Hookers to play this years North By NorthEast Festival in Toronto, Canada.

The show is schedualed for June 20th @ 9:00pm at the Black Bull.

More details will be available once the legal department has crossed all appropriate “T”s  and the appropriate “i” s.

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25
Nov

Hear the CBC Interview

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Now you can hear the CBC Radio interview with Mark J, and Mark C on the ever crumbling economy.

Click here to listen

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10
Oct

Breaking News!

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Mark J & Mark C live on CBC Radio 3!

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15
Jan

Any musician or band worth their salt these days needs to have a web presence and a good understanding of what brings people to their site and how people can find them on this ever growing world wide web.

A great resource on such topics and well as others in the Social Media Driven Marketing World is one of my favourite podcasts called “The Marketing Edge

Today (well, at least thats when I listened to it) continue

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12
Oct

Oct. 17, 2007: The Parkdale Hookers at the Fantasy Fashion X Show

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We’ll be closing out the Fantasy Fashion X Show (a fundrasier for Gallery 1313) on Wednesday, October 17th.

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It’s at the Lula Longe at 1585 Dundas St. W

Tickets are $20 at the door.

Hope to see you there!

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1
May

May 3, 2007 – Rocking out at Portfolio Night

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We’re playing a private function on May 3rd – “Portfolio Night” where fresh Creatives in the Ad industry meet more established Art Directors to show them their “book”. Even cooler – the event happens in 21 different time zones (Berlin, San Franscisco, etc).

It’s sponsored by some big names in the Ad industry – DDB, Corbis, Black Bag, AdWeek and TAXI, just to name a few. Yow!

It looks to be a “highly targeted” night of “interactive” rock and roll, with a good ROI.

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14
Mar

Theatre Music – not rock and roll, but close

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One of the side interests I have when the Hookers aren’t kicking out the jams, as they say, is writing music for films and theatre.

This week, I’ll be providing music for another RJ Downes / K. Malek production Death to Dating appearing in Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival. continue

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19
Feb

Podcasting has been good to us and we here at Parkdale Hookers International enjoy the many podcasts streaming into our iPods everyday. No sorry, that’s inaccurate we’re ADDICTED to podcasts.

And I thought books were bad…
I just checked my iTunes podcast count and I have about a day and a half of podcasts lined up for listening. Everything from The Advertising Show and the The Marketing Edge, to The Mac Observers Mac Geek Gab, to the incredible Insomnia Radio Podcast. It’s almost as bad as my book addiction — ‘cept they’re free and even easier to get a hold of. Good thing I have my iPod on most of the time!

Radio over the last few years has gotten pretty stale, whereas the quality of Podcasting just keeps on getting better. And not just the sound quality – the quality and choice in the music programming itself has surpassed anything I’ve heard on radio for a long time. Take a listen to Insomnia Radio some night and see what radio should be, and should start to pay attention to if it knows what’s good for it. continue

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25
Jan

Feb 12, 2007 “Twisted Valentines Show” – Toronto

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SATURDAY, FEB. 12, 2005

– THE PARKDALE HOOKERS –

“T.O.'s Gentlemen Callers”

Makin' it loud at the Blue Moon Bar

Closing out the annual

Twisted Valentines Cabaret & Art Show

featuring:

songs of love & lust by EvelynN

the sexy soulful sounds of Rahi High

Magic that Rocks! by JEFF HILL

the enticing hips of NAIMA the Belly Dancer

Twisted Fashion Show

visual art by

Menno Krant, Tracy Horvath, Anthony Jenkins, Dorota,

and many more

Doors open at 8:00pm, Show starts at 9:00pm.

Admission: $7.00 at the door.

Come on out and check out The Parkdale Hookers new killer material!

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